Summary: imitation is the best form of…. Um, hatred?

Alex- age 8, Justin- age 9

She was not exactly sure what happened there.

Let's take it from the top.

On 14th January, she messed up a spell to turn Justin's hair orange and instead destroyed her own favorite pair of shoes. She threw a hissy fit and blamed Justin for it and vowed revenge and came up with the idea of giving him a moustache and beard and then dying them orange.

On 22nd January, she messed up the spell to do that and instead turned another pair of her shoes orange. Another round of hissy fits and blaming Justin and swearing revenge followed.

After which, her mother threatened her father that she will dye all their shoes orange if he didn't stop being such a miser and just buy her a god damn pair of new shoes and get this freaking whole thing over it!

On 3rd February, after finding his Nets autographed baseball bat suspiciously missing and finally getting the hint, he finally took the kids out to buy new shoes.

"Can't we just get one for Alex? The other kids have perfectly new shoes!"

"I want that one!" Max complained, pointing at a shoe on the highest shelf and on the higher side of that thing called price range. "And a unicorn that breathes out cotton candy."

"If they get new shoes, why shouldn't I? I'm the good son!" Justin complained.

And before her father could answer that with a "because it's my money and I want to go home now to watch AFV reruns", her mother shut him up with just a glare.

And so, they all bought new shoes.

And here comes the part that doesn't make sense to her. Instead of buying the wedges that she begged her mother for till she finally agreed in exchange of her doing her homework on time for six whole months, she bought a pair of sneakers that was exactly like Justin's.

She was still not exactly sure what just happened there.

Let's take it from the top again.

Alex- age 16, Justin age 17

She was not exactly sure what happened there.

Let's take it from the top.

On 3rd May, Justin made a comment on her Facebook profile picture making fun of the new blue streaks on her hair.

On 4th May, she blocked him, and cursed herself for ever adding him as a friend in the first place just for the sake of making fun of anything and everything he posted. Stupid, stupid, stupid!

On 5th May, she "accidentally" dropped his phone in Max's fish tank. Well, she hoped that was fish, anyway.

She was instantly and unfairly grounded. And it was immediately decided that he would get a new phone the very next day.

Why should only Justin get a new phone?

She threw hers at the wall, and oops. "I was playing catch with Max and instead of fetching the ball, he got me my phone, and I didn't really notice till I threw it and it broke."

And even though nobody believed the lie, nobody could risk letting Alex Russo roam about the streets freely without a smartphone on her that monitored her location all the time. They had all learnt their lessons after the Coney Island incident.

And so it was decided that she would get a new phone too, and her father had a Broadway moment, breaking into a conversation with the Universe and a ridiculous song that she could make an educated guess was about money.

On 6th May, they got their new phones. He got a Mandroid, with over two lakhs of apps and a ten megapixel camera, and blah blah blah, she didn't really care about the specs that he just wouldn't shut up about. She got a Kindows phone, because she found it to be ridiculously cool and stylish. Max was distracted by... They didn't dare to ask, and just bought him a balloon shaped like a giraffe.

And now she had this stupid realization that his phone was kind of sort of a little bit maybe cooler than hers. And it was bugging the hell out of her.

What were the chances of breaking another phone and not getting into serious trouble?

She was sure it was significantly less than her chances of getting her hands on Justin's phone and draining his battery.

And so it began. Snatching his precious phone out of his hands and playing games in it. She was not sure why he let her, specially after everything they had been through, but if she had to guess, she would say that by then he had waved the white flag and bowed down to worship her.

While she worshipped his phone. It seriously was amazing.

It took her a while to figure out that her phone had the pirated exactly same freaking games under a different name.

And ha, they are on even ground again! So there. All is well. Alex Russo wins as usual.

And to show off her superiority, it was time to do the spell.

And another pair of orange shoes later,

She was not exactly sure what happened.

Let's take it from the top again.

(P.S. He still didn't tell her that calcei meant shoes and not orange and that's how she got the spell wrong. Shh!)

A/N: it's been so long! I've started writing again, and I realized I should write something for the fandom that built me, and then I got this idea. Do you like it? How are you guys? I miss you!

Also, if anyone is interested, there's a link to my first novel on my profile. It's FREE, I just want people to read it. Thank you for inspiring me to write, you guys! Love you guys! :)